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Order safety notes

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Order safety notes

Technical safety checklist for order-related examples.

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Updated May 30, 2026

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Purpose

Prevent accidental live trading and clarify technical safeguards.

Requirements

Paper trading first
Explicit contract
Explicit quantity
Manual review

Paper trading first

Treat every order-related example as educational. Verify account, environment, contract, quantity, and route in a paper session before adapting anything.

Notes

Use paper trading first.

Confirm account, contract, quantity, order type, and route.

Do not run order code blindly.

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